“For seven years I had to bear the burden of doing unnecessary investigations and procedures, including angioplasty, under pressure from the management of the hospital,” GautamMistry, a cardiologist in Kolkata, told The BMJ. What Mistry is describing is one of the best kept secrets of India’s private healthcare sector—consultants hired by private hospitals have to meet targets for generating re...

August von Wassermann was born in Bavaria just over a century ago, and perhaps it is therefore fitting to report a small group of patients in which serious diagnostic difficulties were resolved with the aid of the complement-fixation test now named after him. We also report these cases in order to draw attention to the fact that neurosyphilis, though uncommon, is not nowadays as rare as some wo...

Introduction: According to Millennium Development Goal (MDG) number 4, child mortality should be reduced by two thirds by 2015.  The focus has been on decreasing neonatal deaths in high-mortality countries. In this study, we assessed the recorded causes of neonatal hospitalization in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and infant care wards. Methods: The present cross-sectional study was ca...

A review of admissions to cancer services at University Hospital Galway (UHG) was undertaken to assess the appropriateness of hospital usage. All cancer specialty patients admitted from 26-28 May 2009 were reviewed (n = 82). Chi square tests, Exact tests, and One-way ANOVA were utilised to analyse key issues emerging from the data. Fifty (61%) were classified as emergencies. Twenty three (67%) ...

With the development of information technology that is so fast today, inevitably all aspects life, including educational institutions, must follow. The university has also started implementing new student admissions through online media, from registration process, payments, entrance tests and announcements being accepted or rejected. In its implementation, find obstacles, how payment system? if...

conclusions the individual characteristics, educational background and admission criteria had showed relation with academic failure. vulnerable students should be identified and educational supports should be provided for these students. results the frequency of course repetition, probation, and delayed graduation was reported to be 19.25%, 3.9% and 19.85%, respectively. gaining low grade in hi...

This work presents two heuristics to be used as admission policy in imprecise task systems. It is assumed that imprecise tasks have intra-task and inter-task dependence and a 0/1 constraint. These heuristics are supposed to be used combined with off-line schedulability tests and on-line acceptance tests already described in the literature. The objective of the admission policy is to maximize sy...

BACKGROUND A better knowledge of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) persistence in hospitalised patients may impact on specific prevention strategies. We have investigated the persistence of MRSA-carriage in patients admitted and re-admitted to a university hospital. PATIENTS AND METHODS Between January 2002 and October 2005 all MRSA-positive patients admitted to the universit...